Mr. Sunil Goel is a lawyer, academician, speaker and author based in New Delhi, India. He holds a Masters degree in law. He is licensed to practice in India and is practicing in law courts for last more than 13 years. He is empanelled with prestigious professional bodies like World Intellectual Property Organisation (Geneva), HongKong International Arbitration Centre, Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration, Mauritius Arbitration Centre, Indian Council of Arbitration, Cepani-40 Belgian Arbitration & Mediation Centre. He has been Government Pleader for Government of India. He is the owner of law firm S.G.Solicitors. He is the author of book titled “COURTS POLICE AUTHORITIES & COMMON MAN” which has been appreciated by Hon’ble President, Vice-President and Prime Minister of India. The book deals with Indian justice legal system, judiciary, Judges, Advocates, Police, in simple language. The book is available on www.googlebooks.com for free download. The forthcoming book from him is ‘COURTS & BOLLYWOOD’ which is an interesting collection of cases relating to Bollywood and Bollywood film stars. For more details, log on to www.sgsolicitors.com. In this blog, he periodically posts interesting news from legal arena, mainly involving Indian film artists (Bollywood). If you find any post interesting or informative, do not forget to mention so to the author.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Copyright infringement alleged in the recent movie 'Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge'

As per a news report, a controversy has erupted now regarding the movie 'Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge' which was released in February/March 2010, starring Ajay Devgan, Konkana Sen Sharma and Paresh Rawal. Noted novelist and write Mr.Aabid Surti has alleged that the story of the said film has been lifted from his Gujarati novel 'Bauter Varas No Babo'. He has filed a complaint with The Film Writers Association (FWA), demanding Rs.1.15 crore as compensation.
On the other hand, the film's producer said that his film is inspired not from his novel but from another acclaimed writer Sharad Joshi's short story titled 'Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge'.
Only time will tell who is right.
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